And the Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the

economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host Richard

Wolf. I want to quickly remind you that Charlie Fabian is

available if you have suggestions and ideas for our programs you can reach him at Charlie dot info 438 at gmail.com and I also want to remind you

about our new book. Understanding Capitalism available via our website which you know. If you

like this program I think you will like that book. It is an attempt to give you an overview of the

capitalist system that incorporates the many particular analytical

arguments that we offer week after week after year. If they have

proven interesting to you I think this book will do that as well and it's

particularly useful for people who want,

who are active, who want to be teachers or students,

to get a concentrated dose of a critical understanding. a

concentrated dose of a critical understanding of capitalism to go along with and to balance

the celebration of capitalism that is literally the air most of us breathe.

Okay, today's program is different from others.

It's not a collection of particular pieces of analysis. It's rather an

attempt to respond to what a great many of you have asked, an assessment of the economics of the election of the Trump versus Harris effort

that is now coming to a head, and where you have asked me to talk about what the differences

are, what their economic programs look like, what we can or should expect.

So here's my response to that perfectly reasonable request.

Here we go.

First of all, there are plenty of reasons to support Mr. Trump over Harris or vice versa. They have important differences on issues you know about.

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